Pastoral Resources

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been.

I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.

Reading is my greatest luxury.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.